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Facebook dominates cases of recorded social media grooming
June 4, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Facebook dominates cases of recorded social media grooming Police in England and Wales recorded more than 10,000 online grooming offences on social media over two-and-a-half years. Where the method was recorded, more than half – 55% – took place on a Facebook-owned app. The figures come from freedom of information requests lodged by child protection […]
Read More...Why the world is running out of sand
November 22, 2019 · By Vince Beiser for www.bbc.com
A South African entrepreneur shot dead in September. Two Indian villagers killed in a gun battle in August. A Mexican environmental activist murdered in June. Though separated by thousands of miles, these killings share an unlikely cause. They are some of the latest casualties in a growing wave of violence sparked by the struggle for […]
Read More...Philippine bid to lower criminal liability age wins backing
January 28, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A bill to reduce minimum age of criminal responsibility from 15 to nine years of age is cleared to go before congress Joe Torres, Manila Philippines January 22, 2019 The Philippine Lower House’s justice committee backed a draft bill on Jan. 21 that would lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 15 to nine years old. […]
Read More...Children of Philippine drug war victims join global prayer
October 18, 2018 ·
Children of victims of the war against drugs in the Philippines are joining a global campaign to pray the rosary for peace on Oct. 18. The international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need said at least 1,200 parishes and 700 Catholic schools from 41 Philippine dioceses are also participating in the “One […]
Read More...Convicted paedophile Douglas Slade sued by alleged Filipino victims
October 11, 2018 · By NEWSEXPLORED for newsexplored.co.uk
A convicted British paedophile is being sued for damages by five young people who claim they were sexually exploited by him overseas, in what is thought to be the first case of its kind. The five will give evidence to the High Court via video link about abuse they said they suffered while Douglas Slade […]
Read More...Church leaders brush off Duterte claim he’s not Catholic
September 26, 2018 ·
Catholic Church leaders in the Philippines have shrugged off recent comments by President Rodrigo Duterte reiterating he is not a Catholic anymore. Duterte had earlier said that he stopped being a Catholic after enduring abuse from a priest when he was a child. Bishop Arturo Bastes of Sorsogon said the president can do what he wants because no […]
Read More...Inside Chilean abuse survivor’s meeting with Pope Francis
July 25, 2018 · By Brian Roewe for www.ncronline.org
CHICAGO — On a snowy Saturday in April, Juan Carlos Cruz was at his Philadelphia-area home enjoying a quiet morning in bed, watching Netflix and eating Honey Nut Cheerios, when his cellphone rang with a call from the Vatican. The person on the other end of the line said he was contacting Cruz on behalf of […]
Read More...Can Norway help us solve the plastic crisis, one bottle at a time?
July 24, 2018 · By Matthew Taylor for www.theguardian.com
Tens of thousands of brightly coloured plastic drinks bottles tumble from the back of a truck on to a conveyor belt before disappearing slowly inside a warehouse on the outskirts of Oslo. As a workman picks up a few Coke bottles that have escaped, Kjell Olav Maldum looks on. “It is a system that works,” […]
Read More...150-kilo woman sits on girl, girl dies
October 19, 2017 · By Associated Press for newsinfo.inquirer.net
PENSACOLA, Florida, United States — A 150-kilo Florida woman is charged with killing her 9-year-old cousin by sitting on the child as punishment. Veronica Green Posey, 64, was arrested and charged with homicide and cruelty toward a child, The Pensacola News Journal reported. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office report identified Posey as the girl’s cousin. […]
Read More...Trillanes to Koko: Oust Dick, or else . . .
October 4, 2017 · By By: Christine O. Avendaño - @inquirerdotnet for newsinfo.inquirer.net
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV on Thursday threatened to work very hard for the ouster of Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III if the latter would keep Sen. Richard Gordon as chair of the powerful Senate blue ribbon committee. Trillanes said he wanted a change in the Senate leadership because Gordon’s handling of the blue ribbon […]
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